December 21, 2007

Me? Evangelize?

Merry Christmas, dear readers! This week if you have a little extra time in your Christmas stocking, be sure to join Ebeth at A Catholic Mum Climbing the Pillars, where she has posted the Christmas edition of “Catholic Carnival” this week. Thanks, Ebeth! “…there is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know him and to talk to others of our friendship with him”. (CDF, “Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of Evangelization,” 7). Lately I’ve been thinking about what it means to “evangelize,” something we as Catholics are all called […]
March 5, 2007

Looking Toward Jerusalem

It happens every Lent. We get to that place in the “big red book” and start singing a song that I have never managed to get through without choking up. I have fixed my eyes on your hills,Jerusalem mydestiny!/ Though I can not see the end for me, I can not turn away. We have set our hearts for the way; this journey is our destiny./ Let no one walk alone.The journey makes us one. Other spirits, lesser gods, have courted me withlies,/ Here among you I have found a truth which bids me rise. *chorus* To the tombs I went to mourn the hope […]